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Demonstration of Android at Google I / O
It was at the Google I / O, clustering developers conference which took place on 28 and May 29 in San Francisco, Steve Horovitz, chief engineer at Google , gave a presentation of the new operating system for open source Mobile: Android .
After the announcement of 50 finalists for the "Android Developer Challenge" , the seminar demonstrated the power of the new platform Made In Google . In addition, the Mountain View company has hinted at the HTC Dream which was used for the presentation.
During the demo, Google was able to present a more innovative platform. These include for example:
- A simulation of virtual desktops: one can go from one office to another by simply sliding a finger on the touch screen. Each can accommodate different applications (clock, web browser, desktop icons, ...). Moreover, they are able to receive shortcuts created easily by the user.
- Google street view helped by the accelerometer: the application reacts to movements of the phone. With a compass and a motion detector, a simple motion to move into the streets mapped in Google Map.
- A new-generation browser: just like the iPhone, Android can access Google specially designed for small size screens. From this, one can access Gmail, Google Calendar or Google Reader. In addition, the browser includes a powerful zoom function that magnifies parts of the web page.
Many applications are available. We can also emphasize the shop software Google built into the operating system.
Here's a video demonstration of Android at the Google I / O:
We can see that the work was done at the GUI is real progress and scheduled for release later this year suggests that Google could become an editor operating system for mobile with powerful interoperability for Android .
Video on moving Google Streets is not bad but the plsu interesting is that the:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arXolJrLVEg
It shows a graphical interface developed Android, we also see that they are breathing heavily from the iPhone and third-party applications that informal community Apple has created! Breathed!
Jerome actually, this video is very int'ressante! As for respirage on the iPhone, I think rather than the current approaches of touch systems can be developed that are similar, but with their own personality to each.